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title: Which is TRUE about hiding damage? — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is TRUE about hiding damage? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 342 «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Breaking things and hiding the pieces

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Which is TRUE about hiding damage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** damage

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 342 «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces:t10:1
# text = Which is TRUE about hiding damage?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund |  | damage |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It often makes the damage worse and the people sadder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces:t10:o1:1
# text = It often makes the damage worse and the people sadder
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	sadder	sad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the damage |  |  |  | bad, often, sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material damage=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Things hidden are never found

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces:t10:o2:1
# text = Things hidden are never found
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | participle |  | Things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **find** | present · passive |  | Things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is fine if the thing was cheap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces:t10:o3:1
# text = It is fine if the thing was cheap
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the thing |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It always keeps you out of trouble if you hide it well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces:t10:o4:1
# text = It always keeps you out of trouble if you hide it well
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | you |  | trouble |  | always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme out trouble=Location |
| 2 | **hide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | trouble |  |  |  | well *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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